a good project manager is somebody who gains respect of his programmers. These are the 10 ways how
- sticks up for his team always
- says "no" to unrealistic timeframes set from management
- says "no" when management want to ship extra functionality before the release
- can help fix the toughest bugs that are delaying the schedule
- has been there before in the programming world and has learned a thing or two.
- always promotes his team and does the best by them
- does not take credit for others:- always distributes it back to the team.
- pushes management to reward his team for performance
- pushes management to give promotions where they are due
- takes the blame if anything goes wrong and quitely works with the team to get it fixed.
Unfortunately, typical project managers have few, if any of these qualities.
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Did you know that spider silk has a tensile strength stronger than steel, is the toughest fibre known to man, and is compatible with the biology of the human body?
Also, my girlfriend wanted me to mention that like spiderman, I too can shoot out a sticky white substance.
This is the age-old scam called the cred-con. You create a new nightclub with an exclusive looking facade and then you put out a velvet rope and a bouncer and you only let in one out of 1000 people. And then you charge a "premium" and let anyone in throught the back door.
Professionals are the demographic who least need a web presence. Is this just a scam to attract other scam artists who want to present their own facade of credibility.
this confirms my earlier theory, which was also recently corroborated by my two year old son, that toys are in fact the fundmental building blocks of the universe.
Take all of the failed PhD project titles. Sort them into lexograpic order. Go to the largest spike in the histogram. The dissertation title is
"Face recognition using Neural Networks".
If you though optical character recognition gives too much classificat error, look at the field of face recognition.
qui est le visage derrière le masque
The guys at work had a chuckle at the iarchitect.com User Interface Hall of Shame. If companies like Microsoft weren't featured it wouldn't be half the fun!
Everyone enjoys a scape goat; I noticed that a lot of university professors also reference this site in their online GUI course notes!
Anyone know of any other good "chambers of GUI horrors".
Hacking away at a single project can get really boring. Especially if it a "database" project or something of similar mind-numbingly dumb proportions. The urge to do something different, like play games wells up after about five hours of such banality.
In the last six years I've had a more senior role including being the CTO of an organization. This has involved having many concurrent tasks, some coding related, administative work, documenting on the intranet, interviewing, etc. The advantage of this kind of work is that I can switch tasks when I get disinterested in the task de l'heure. My brain is occupied and the urge to play games disappears.
Bottom line: if you want smart people to stop playing games; promote them, give them more responsibilities and more varied tasks. If they are not ready to for the promotion, put a "acceptable use" policy in place and live with the games and be happy that you have real people rather than robots.
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"To me it sounded like your whole post was implying that Microsoft stockholders should be worried now, partly because of Google. Now you're talking about the "real, original" MSN. Was Google even around then?"
I referred to Google and MSN as separate unrelated points. The mention of Google was obviously not related on some kind of "dependant timeline" to my mention of my other point about MSN.
"Why would Microsoft's stockholders be worried about what you describe as "history?""
The same reason why any corporation would be worried about history. You see history has this strange property; if the same conditions are met as the last bit of history, it can happen all over again. If you spent as much as Microsoft did on the original MSN you would be pretty concerned about it; and something that you and your shareholders wouldn't forget in a hurry.
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Let explain myself better as your arguments are complex and well crafted.
I would like to point out that the entire reason for my original post was to go against the "Microsoft the-Borg grain" that sometimes goes about slashdot and introduce some reasoning why Microsoft would want to play, to some extent, into their own hand by intoducing standards that tend to look like standards but utimately lash users back to their core product.
RE: innovation. Microsoft do it well, the re-emergence of MSN is one example (of many) of how Microsoft have turned a loss into a win.
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Well, seeing how Microsoft/MSN gets around 7 times the number of unique visitors that Google gets, and that they hang around the site around 25 times longer than Google's, you tell me how concerned they are.
** whoa, back up, time out, history lesson. Microsoft's MSN (project Blackbird) was a complete failure. Their following internet site which has very little in common with Blackbird, now called the "new" MSN is very successful. I was referring to the real, original MSN.
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* we can trade surveys until someone accuses Gartner of corruption but there is no denying that there is a serious MS Server pecking attack by Linux
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2332817.htm l
* nothing is invincible:- MS are currently the kings of the desktop OS market. Who, however, would have predicted the hatchet job Linux has done to the server scene.
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what would you do?
- your grip on the server market appears to be slipping
- great companies such as google.com are proving that you can grab web market share fairly quickly with a better product
- technologies such as Linux, VM Ware, WINE and Java are threatening to nibble away your desktop market
- having some spectacular white elephants such as MSN on record
I ask the question:- if you were a director/shareholder of a company like Microsoft would you
a) play to your strength and leverage your current market domination and try to eliminate competing standards while creating new "standards", eg.NET that ultimately play back into your desktop Windows (XP) market, or
b)go open source, support Java, employ open standards, go cross platform, etc etc and risk losing any market dominance you have now?
This is a tricky question but throws open the debate for us rabid slashdotters
I just signed up on the Freedom plan, before they have even INSTALLED it they add this insulting restriction on monthly bandwidth. In my opinion Telstra have a long track record of over charging Australians for the internet and especially for their business internet.
In fact I heard they were only using 0.5% of their network capacity a few years ago and they were still making companies and business BLEED big dollars for anything better than dialup. I reckon this is the very first time they have offered a half decent product at a reasonable price and they HAVE STUFFED THAT UP.
DON'T let them get away with it. Don't mess around. Voice your opinion directly to www.telstra.com.au at their web site
Telstra online complaint form
choose a service area (pick one you like the sound of) and shoot them an email. If you have multiple objections then it may pay to send them a few separate emails directed to different service areas to ensure that you convey all the aspects of your objection whether it be
- you feel they have used deceptive and misleading advertising
- you feel that they are abusing their position as market leader
- they are letting their existing ADSL customer down
- their excess per meg charges are far to high
- others
I have sent a couple of emails to them and hope they get back to me soon. I have requested they increase or remove the limit for all users. Just doing my bit for the cause. I'll let you know how we go.
thanks
falsemover
Viva la revolution - drive around in your BMWs and ROCK the system.
I think you guys are way off the mark. McDonald's fries are a blend of vegetable and animal oil. Unfortunately they contain 95% oil from super-saturated animal fat, and only 5% vegetable oil (and probably from palm oil, a very cheap fat source).
So unless they make a motorbike run from pigs drippings the smell ain't the same.
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a good project manager is somebody who gains respect of his programmers. These are the 10 ways how - sticks up for his team always - says "no" to unrealistic timeframes set from management - says "no" when management want to ship extra functionality before the release - can help fix the toughest bugs that are delaying the schedule - has been there before in the programming world and has learned a thing or two. - always promotes his team and does the best by them - does not take credit for others :- always distributes it back to the team.
- pushes management to reward his team for performance
- pushes management to give promotions where they are due
- takes the blame if anything goes wrong and quitely works with the team to get it fixed.
Unfortunately, typical project managers have few, if any of these qualities.
Rate your own PM ...
Did you know that spider silk has a tensile strength stronger than steel, is the toughest fibre known to man, and is compatible with the biology of the human body? Also, my girlfriend wanted me to mention that like spiderman, I too can shoot out a sticky white substance.
This is the age-old scam called the cred-con. You create a new nightclub with an exclusive looking facade and then you put out a velvet rope and a bouncer and you only let in one out of 1000 people. And then you charge a "premium" and let anyone in throught the back door.
Professionals are the demographic who least need a web presence. Is this just a scam to attract other scam artists who want to present their own facade of credibility.
un déception par jour maintient le docteur parti
this confirms my earlier theory, which was also recently corroborated by my two year old son, that toys are in fact the fundmental building blocks of the universe.
garçons et leurs jouets minuscules
- continuous filtered coffee, of the the good Italian kind
- my illuminated aquarium to my left
- my TV to the right playing clips of Britney Spears
- my ADSL on continuous standby, as you never know when the urge to play online chess will overcome you
- Kazza Light running in the background stealing stuff from the net
- my loyal dog at my feet, of the Cocker Spaniel kind
- oh yeah, and when I go to work I give all this up sit in a boring cubicle - they might wonder why I'm never in the zone there
- did I read somewhere that you can take your dog to work at Google?
ma vie est un équilibre sensible de vin, de nourriture et de la programmationTake all of the failed PhD project titles. Sort them into lexograpic order. Go to the largest spike in the histogram. The dissertation title is
"Face recognition using Neural Networks".
If you though optical character recognition gives too much classificat error, look at the field of face recognition.
qui est le visage derrière le masque
The guys at work had a chuckle at the iarchitect.com User Interface Hall of Shame. If companies like Microsoft weren't featured it wouldn't be half the fun!
Everyone enjoys a scape goat; I noticed that a lot of university professors also reference this site in their online GUI course notes!
Anyone know of any other good "chambers of GUI horrors".
Torturé par la fenêtre.
In the last six years I've had a more senior role including being the CTO of an organization. This has involved having many concurrent tasks, some coding related, administative work, documenting on the intranet, interviewing, etc. The advantage of this kind of work is that I can switch tasks when I get disinterested in the task de l'heure. My brain is occupied and the urge to play games disappears.
Bottom line: if you want smart people to stop playing games; promote them, give them more responsibilities and more varied tasks. If they are not ready to for the promotion, put a "acceptable use" policy in place and live with the games and be happy that you have real people rather than robots.
"To me it sounded like your whole post was implying that Microsoft stockholders should be worried now, partly because of Google. Now you're talking about the "real, original" MSN. Was Google even around then?"
I referred to Google and MSN as separate unrelated points. The mention of Google was obviously not related on some kind of "dependant timeline" to my mention of my other point about MSN.
"Why would Microsoft's stockholders be worried about what you describe as "history?""
The same reason why any corporation would be worried about history. You see history has this strange property; if the same conditions are met as the last bit of history, it can happen all over again. If you spent as much as Microsoft did on the original MSN you would be pretty concerned about it; and something that you and your shareholders wouldn't forget in a hurry.
Dr. Simon Ronald
Let explain myself better as your arguments are complex and well crafted.
I would like to point out that the entire reason for my original post was to go against the "Microsoft the-Borg grain" that sometimes goes about slashdot and introduce some reasoning why Microsoft would want to play, to some extent, into their own hand by intoducing standards that tend to look like standards but utimately lash users back to their core product.
RE: innovation. Microsoft do it well, the re-emergence of MSN is one example (of many) of how Microsoft have turned a loss into a win.
Well, seeing how Microsoft/MSN gets around 7 times the number of unique visitors that Google gets, and that they hang around the site around 25 times longer than Google's, you tell me how concerned they are.
** whoa, back up, time out, history lesson. Microsoft's MSN (project Blackbird) was a complete failure. Their following internet site which has very little in common with Blackbird, now called the "new" MSN is very successful. I was referring to the real, original MSN.
Dr. Simon Ronald
* we can trade surveys until someone accuses Gartner of corruption but there is no denying that there is a serious MS Server pecking attack by Linux
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9 9p oy_linux.html
:- MS are currently the kings of the desktop OS market. Who, however, would have predicted the hatchet job Linux has done to the server scene.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2332817.ht
http://www.infoworld.com/supplements/99poy_drv/
* nothing is invincible
what would you do?
:- if you were a director/shareholder of a company like Microsoft would you
.NET that ultimately play back into your desktop Windows (XP) market, or
- your grip on the server market appears to be slipping
- great companies such as google.com are proving that you can grab web market share fairly quickly with a better product
- technologies such as Linux, VM Ware, WINE and Java are threatening to nibble away your desktop market
- having some spectacular white elephants such as MSN on record
I ask the question
a) play to your strength and leverage your current market domination and try to eliminate competing standards while creating new "standards", eg
b)go open source, support Java, employ open standards, go cross platform, etc etc and risk losing any market dominance you have now?
This is a tricky question but throws open the debate for us rabid slashdotters
Dr. Simon Ronald
Nerdy SpeedReading Software http://www.rocketreader.com (shameless ad)
I just signed up on the Freedom plan, before they have even INSTALLED it they add this insulting restriction on monthly bandwidth. In my opinion Telstra have a long track record of over charging Australians for the internet and especially for their business internet. In fact I heard they were only using 0.5% of their network capacity a few years ago and they were still making companies and business BLEED big dollars for anything better than dialup. I reckon this is the very first time they have offered a half decent product at a reasonable price and they HAVE STUFFED THAT UP. DON'T let them get away with it. Don't mess around. Voice your opinion directly to www.telstra.com.au at their web site Telstra online complaint form choose a service area (pick one you like the sound of) and shoot them an email. If you have multiple objections then it may pay to send them a few separate emails directed to different service areas to ensure that you convey all the aspects of your objection whether it be - you feel they have used deceptive and misleading advertising - you feel that they are abusing their position as market leader - they are letting their existing ADSL customer down - their excess per meg charges are far to high - others I have sent a couple of emails to them and hope they get back to me soon. I have requested they increase or remove the limit for all users. Just doing my bit for the cause. I'll let you know how we go. thanks falsemover Viva la revolution - drive around in your BMWs and ROCK the system.
I think you guys are way off the mark. McDonald's fries are a blend of vegetable and animal oil. Unfortunately they contain 95% oil from super-saturated animal fat, and only 5% vegetable oil (and probably from palm oil, a very cheap fat source). So unless they make a motorbike run from pigs drippings the smell ain't the same.